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:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210403 ''Chinese Central Asia''] by C P Skrine. Indian Civil Service, British Consul General in Chinese Turkistan 1922-1924. First published 1926 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.210403/2015.210403.Chinese-Central#page/n401/mode/2up Index].[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001872231 Hathi Trust Digital Library version] where images are rotatable. The Consulate was at Kashgar. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarmont_Percival_Skrine Clarmont Percival Skrine] Wikipedia.
:Also see [[Norperforce]] for more about the Kashgar Mission during WW1 prior to 1922.
:[https://archive.org/details/antiqueland00ship ''The Antique Land''] by Diana Shipton 1950. Archive.org Lending Library. Another [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.29925/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org version], mirror from Archaeological Survey of India at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. A memoir by the wife of Eric Shipton, the last British consul in Kashgar before the consulate closed in 1947.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501356 ''The Old Burma Road''] 1945. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Full title: The ''Old Burma Road. A journey on foot and muleback. From the diary, notes and reminiscences of Doctor N. Bradley''. The author spent many years in China as a medical missionary. This is an account of a journey taken in March, 1930 on the granite slab road along which, 650 years earlier, Marco Polo had ridden with his escort of Kublai Khan's horsemen from Yunnan-Fu to Bhamo.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1935-where-china-meets-burma-life-and-travel-in-the-burma-china-border-lands-by-metford-s-pdf/ ''Where China Meets Burma. : Life and Travel in the Burma-China Border Lands''] by Beatrix Metford 1935. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. (If download does not display, located in Books/Tibet And China). A description of the book elsewhere indicates the author accompanied her husband, who was a British official. They lived for several years in the Shan States, Burma and then in Yunnan, southern China. From elsewhere, it appears she was the second wife of Stanley Wyatt-Smith of Britain's China Consular Service.
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*[https://archive.org/details/japangazettehon00unkngoog ''The "Japan Gazette" Hong List and Directory, for 1874''] Archive.org. '''Note''': some of the text is missing- it is not clear whether this relates to the filming, or the original publication.
